Quality Care for Children

Quality Care for Children (QCC) is a nonprofit organization with a 30-year history of ensuring Georgia’s infants and young children are nurtured and educated. The organization’s primary focus is on creating excellence in child care and early learning by 1) supporting quality child care programs and providers and 2) helping parents access affordable, quality childcare. CES was hired by QCC to develop a comprehensive logic model, measurement model and evaluation plan. This evaluation work was needed as the basis of new data management system that QCC planned to purchase and use to capture critical process and outcome data. CES worked collaboratively with the entire QCC team to develop the program logic model. We then reviewed each measure the organization was using to assess process and outcomes and identified areas with no measures. The result was a detailed evaluation plan that the organization used to program it’s new ETO (Efforts to Outcomes) Data Management System. QCC has since implemented the plan and hired an internal evaluator.